Barack Obama | Project Race

Susan Graham2022-12-09T14:47:16+00:00December 9th, 2022|

This week's Famous Friday is about the 44th president of the United States Barack Hussein Obama II. Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obamas mother, Ann Dunham, is American born in Wichita, Kansas mostly of English descent. His father Barack Obama Sr. is Kenyan from Nyang’oma Kogelo. His parents met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A few weeks after Obama was born, he and his mother moved to Seattle Washington where she attended the University of Washington, his [...]

It’s Famous Friday!

Susan Graham2021-09-30T23:41:36+00:00September 30th, 2021|

Stanley Ann Dunham Today’s Famous Friday is about the mother of the world’s most famous Multiracial man, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Stanley Ann Dunham (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the economic anthropology and rural development of Indonesia. She was known as Stanley Ann Dunham through high school, and resumed her maiden name, Ann Dunham, later in life. In an interview, Barack Obama referred to his mother as "the dominant figure in my formative years ... The values she taught [...]